Actividad física en escolares chilenos normales y de talla baja

Autor: Vivien Gattas Z, Jose Riumallo S, Gladys Barrera A, Ricardo Uauy D
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 1996
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Zdroj: Revista chilena de pediatría v.67 n.5 1996
SciELO Chile
CONICYT Chile
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Popis: irfe obtained for a week day and a weekend- A trained observer recorded physical activities performed by each cui d along a 20 rrrutes breck in schoc! duties. Most acrivities were of sedentary type. A striking findrg wcs 'he time soent en sdenfary act'viries such as sleeping and lync dow^ ( 1 1 .5 ± 1.1 to 1 2.0 ± 1 .4 nous in normal and small for height boys and 1 1 .9 ± 1 .2 to 1 2.2 ± 1 .6 hours in normcl and snail for -eight grls). Both boys and girls spent an averace 3 hours a day watching TV on school days and 4 hours or more cr weekends. No s'gnificant differences in time aistr'bution of different physical activities were found oefween normal aid short stature children. Direct cbserva'ion showed that normal aoys spend significantly larger proportion of iheir time |29.6%j :n moderate and heavy activries than short boys and girls and tna" norrra' girls (p < 0.05J. Srra'l for age child'en encage less Ine in '-igh expendifure cctiv'ties than "ormal children, Thus, in general 'hese chilean schoc: children showed sedentary life styles, with minimal physical actviry and they devoted 30% of t^eir daily time to watch TV.
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